"We have too many unforced errors. It's an adventure handling the ball," Self said. "It seems like we gave 'em so many points by careless turnovers. Hopefully it's just youth. It's really frustrating.

"Regardless of age, you have to be able to take care of the ball, and that's something we don't do very well at all. We have too many careless plays, give them free points. If you turn it over and they have to take it out of bounds, they have to get the defense set. I guarantee you we lead this tournament in turnovers directly leading to baskets. That was a big factor today. We didn't make Arkansas go against our half-court defense like we should."

Regardless, Self can't bench his rookies.

"If we are going to play them," Self said, "they have got to grow up fast."

Brandon Rush, who had three turnovers in 33 minutes to go with his 20 points, has been baffled by all the bobbles.

"I am pretty surprised," the freshman said. "We worked on it at practice, a lot of dribbling drills, passing drills, 2-on-1 drills. We've got to get better at it."